Tina Turner was basking in the glow of a stunning resurgence. Her comeback album, ‘Private Dancer‘, dropped in May and was a gigantic commercial success – a triple-Grammy winner selling 10 million copies worldwide.
The former R&B singer had reinvented herself as the queen of rock and roll, and the triumphant revival in her fortunes led to Hollywood calling.
One of the first to drop her a line was Steven Spielberg, who asked if she’d take the lead in his forthcoming adaptation of Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple.
She turned it down flat. Too depressing. It was like reliving her troubled life with ex-husband and ex-music partner Ike Turner all over again, she explained.Another tantalising offer had come in, anyway.
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